Introduction¶

The JavaScript Client Libraries provide a suite of JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build Solid applications.

Solid Applications¶

Solid applications access data stored in Solid Pods (Solid Pod is the storage location for data). Solid applications refer to applications that conform to the Solid specifications (similarly for Solid servers and Solid Pods).

The specification defines various Solid application behaviors, including those for:

reading and writing data to Solid Pods.
authentication.

JavaScript Client Libraries¶

Inrupt’s JavaScript Client Libraries provide APIs, such as for read/ write/authenticate/access management operations, that conform to the Solid specifications.

Library	Description
`solid-client`	A client library for accessing data stored in Solid Pods.
`solid-client-authn`	A set of libraries for authenticating to Solid identity servers: `solid-client-authn-browser` for use in a browser. `solid-client-authn-node` for use in Node.js.
`vocab-common-rdf`	A library that provides convenience objects for many RDF-related identifiers, such as the Person and familyName identifiers from the Schema.org vocabulary from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
`vocab-solid-common`	A library that provides convenience objects for many Solid-related identifiers.
`vocab-inrupt-common`	A library that provides convenience objects for Inrupt-related identifiers.

Browser Support¶

The JavaScript Client Libraries support all modern web browsers on the latest 2 stable releases, including the following minimum versions:

Desktop¶

Browser	Version
Google Chrome	Latest 2 stable releases
Mozilla Firefox	Latest 2 stable releases
Microsoft Edge	Latest 2 stable releases
Apple Safari	Latest 2 stable releases

Mobile¶

Browser	Version
iOS/Safari	Latest 2 stable releases
Android/Chrome	Latest 2 stable releases
Android / Samsung Internet	Latest 2 stable releases

You can use the libraries in the browser with a bundler like Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel.

Getting Started¶

To get started using these libraries, see the following pages in the documentation:

Getting Started: Part 1	Create an application that uses the libraries to read data from your Solid Pod.
Getting Started: Part 2	Creating an application that uses the libraries to write data to your Solid Pod.